I forgot about Karl. But Karl had no idea what the Brady Bunch was, so I doubt he or Alex had ever been off the island.

"Not sure what to make of Locke’s presumption that the
woman whose house he’s inspecting has a husband—is it intended to
signify that he has marriage on the mind, and forgets his manners? I
found it very odd."

It's been around for as long as there have been hippos.

In May, I took my sister to Scotland and tried my best to explain to her everything there was to know about the country. I didn't know this show existed until she called me and told me she saw a trailer for it and recognized some of the places (the car ride as well as Inverness). She did not remember what Jacobites…

As someone who knows Scottish history and folklore backwards and forwards but has never read the books, picking that song screams at us what happens in book 2 and 3.

The last season of House of Payne consisted of 62 episodes. I don't see how you could go that one season without repeating cliched sitcom plots.

Amazing how this show never seemed to take place during Seattle summer, when it goes weeks without raining and there's sunshine everywhere.

I know it wasn't written this way at the time, but I justified Ethan's behavior as him just going a bit crazy over the prospect of a healthy pregnant woman. Claire came to the island past the point where pregnant women die, I think. Ethan had a hand in dealing with a lot of the fertility issues on the island, I'd…

Sleeping with someone's aunt doesn't make you their uncle.

It reminded me of the season 3 episode where they get expelled. Just not a lot going on worth watching. But at least that one had Garrett's Ave Maria.

Pete was an avowed communist and an apologist for all sorts of terrible people. So were a lot of other people during that time, and if you read their private correspondence like I have it doesn't really come across as apologism so much as naivete.

Walt's shirt looks like thermal underwear, like he just came from someplace cold and had to take off layers as it got hotter.

But that doesn't give Marie anything about Skyler laundering money via the car wash - which is her crime here. I might be wrong, but I don't recall Skyler and the car wash being actually mentioned as the means to launder within Hank's investigation.

I recall it being "White Sands" - he says he was working there when he met Skyler.

The problem with this is that if you listen to the conversations between Gretchen and Walt, it doesn't make any sense. Gretchen still seems like, decades after the fact, she doesn't fully understand why Walt broke up with her. If she was cheating on him with Elliott she would have a clue.

I feel like I've explained this a hundred times in various places, but it's never been implied that Gretchen cheated on Walt.

I doubt very seriously he would have the logistics and timing to do that. Walt drove to ABQ 30 hours straight. I doubt Vacuum Guy did. It wouldn't surprise me if Walt BEAT Vacuum Guy to Albuquerque by a couple of days.

Actually, it wouldn't surprise me if Todd wasn't an Aryan Brotherhood person at all. For one, it's a prison gang, and there's been no indication that he's ever been to prison. I'd bet Jack and Randy Johnson have been.

Kill Bill was made a decade ago. He was a lot younger then.

Of course Walt said "Fuck you!" to Gretchen at lunch because he felt insecure about his financial past, present, and future. Gretchen demanded to know how Walt, that uninspiring man who bolted because he felt unaccepted around Old Money, was paying for his very expensive cancer treatments. "Fuck you!" is exactly the…